1-4 April 2008, University of Plymouth, England.
With a wide range of oral and poster papers, workshops and exhibitions, and providing a great opportunity to meet and learn from rural practitioners, academics and citizens, the 2008 Rural Futures conference is an event you can’t afford to miss. The conference aims to bring together those who live and work in rural areas with those who make and implement policy, and those who teach and research rural issues. It will draw on specialists from a wide range of
disciplines to encourage a stimulating cross-fertilisation of ideas and experience. It will be truly international, with a strong representation from continental Europe and attendees from Pakistan, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, China, South Africa and elsewhere. And it will be fun as well as worthy.
Headlining the conference will be Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Professor of
Rural Sociology at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, who is
renowned world-wide for his work on agricultural and rural development,
and the human processes involved. For each of the six themes of the
conference, we have an excellent keynote speaker:
Dr Kate Braithwaite, Director of Carnegie UK Trust (Connecting Communities)
Professor Stephen Daniels, Professor of Cultural Geography, University of
Nottingham (Art, culture and society)
Ian Dent, Specialist in methodologies for agency / community consultation
(Making it happen)
Fabienne Goux Baudiment, Head of proGective, Research Centre for Futures
Studies, Paris (Constructing the future)
Dr Charles Kenny, Senior Economist, World Bank, and author of 'Overselling
the web?' (Information, communication and technology)
Professor Bill Slee, Leader of Science Group for Socio-Economics, Macaulay
Institute, Aberdeen (Sustainable solutions)
So don’t delay – check the conference website at
www.ruralfuturesconference.org for further details and registration.
STOP PRESS
Posters Papers can still be accepted
The deadline for the submission of papers has long passed, but we are
still able to offer the opportunity to present a poster paper (conditional
on registration). At this late stage it will not be possible to publish
the paper in the Conference Proceedings, but this will still offer a
valuable opportunity to make your work known. Please contact
susie.bissell@plymouth.ac.uk or call 01752 238462.
Why not exhibit?
We welcome organisations wanting to set up an exhibition stand to display
their work. We expect the conference to be attended by around 200 people,
and it will provide an ideal opportunity for networking on a regional,
national and international basis. Please contact
susie.bissell@plymouth.ac.uk or call 01752 238462.
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